[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1799 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1799

  To prohibit the disposal of Department of Veterans Affairs land and 
                   improvements at St. Albans campus.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2011

    Mr. Meeks (for himself and Mr. King of New York) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit the disposal of Department of Veterans Affairs land and 
                   improvements at St. Albans campus.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``St. Albans VA Veteran Cares Act of 
2011''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON DISPOSAL OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS LAND 
              AND IMPROVEMENTS AT ST. ALBANS CAMPUS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may not declare 
as excess to the needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs or 
otherwise take any action to exchange, trade, auction, transfer, or 
otherwise dispose of, or reduce the acreage of, Federal land and 
improvements at the St. Albans campus, consisting of approximately 55 
acres of land, with borders near Linden Boulevard on the northwest, 
115th Avenue on the west, the Long Island Railroad on the northeast, 
and Baisley Boulevard on the southeast.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 8162(c)(1) of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended by inserting ``, section 2(a) of the St. Albans 
VA Veteran Cares Act of 2011,'' after ``section 421(b)(2) of the 
Veterans' Benefits and Services Act of 1988 (Public Law 100-322; 102 
Stat. 553)''.
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